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RE: [Fwd: Frame Height Different for Default Frame and AdditionalFrames]
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: [Fwd: Frame Height Different for Default Frame and AdditionalFrames] |
Date: |
Sun, 6 Jan 2008 12:45:18 -0800 |
> > Did we already settle on a "right" way to do this? Robert
> > expressed the desire to keep the number of text lines invariant.
> > ISTR others wanted the size of the frame on the screen stay
> > invariant.
>
> > Ideally, the tool bar ought to work like the menu bar:
> > turning it on or off should not affect the height of the text area.
>
> Well, in my world, the The Right Thing is to not change the size of the
> frame unless explicitly requested, so adding a toolbar or menubar should
> reduce the amount of text displayed.
>
> But clearly in other worlds, the convention is different (e.g. macosx
> users probably expect the toolbar to change the size of the whole frame).
That's what I said too:
It is likely that there are different preferences for this
based on different uses of frames.
We should have a user option for this:
The right approach to this is to provide a user option for it.
There is no sense arguing over which frame-size treatment is best
in this regard